Rentals

Celebrate in style at the Staten Island Museum

Whether it's a meeting, reception, workshop, concert, or celebration, the Staten Island Museum is the perfect place to host your next event. The unique location offers comfortable, flexible, and competitively priced spaces to accommodate a variety of needs. Single room, multi-room, or full building rentals are available.

Rentals include a Visitor Services team, operations support staffing, and optional technology packages. As an added feature, guided tours of the gallery are also available.

The Staten Island Museum is ADA compliant and accessible by public transportation.

Rentals

Conference Services - Cultural Settings

Whether it's a meeting, reception, workshop, concert or celebration, the Staten Island Museum has everything required to host a successful event. Our unique locations offer comfortable, flexible, and competitively priced spaces to accommodate a variety of needs. Rent one room, several rooms or an entire building.

The Museum’s conference service staff brings fresh thinking and seamless efficiency to your event. Rentals include a Visitor Services team and operations support. As an added feature, consider combining your rental with guided tours of the Museum’s galleries.

Multi-space rental discounts and technology packages are available. The Staten Island Museum is ADA compliant and accessible by public transportation.

Whole building rentals are available for evening bookings. Schedule your site visit with the
Visitor Services Department.

Edible Island Market

Tastes of the Season!

Saturday, December 2, 11am - 3pm

Mmmm your way through a market full of delicious local and regional treats to give this holiday season! Since the farmer’s market season has ended, the Museum is bringing these artisanal tastes, bites, and gift-able take-homes indoors! Specialty items from the purveyors of mouthwatering edible goods, expertly curated by Staten Island Advance Food Editor, Pamela Silvestri, will be for sale at the Staten Island Museum’s Edible Island Market on December 2, 11am – 3pm.

Who is Rosalie Jones?

Who is Rosalie Jones?

The story behind the woman featured on New York State’s
‘I Voted’ Sticker

This Election Day there’s a new “I Voted” sticker if you live in New York State. Spearheaded by the Women’s Suffrage Commission, chaired by Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, the people voted for their preferred suffragette to honor 100 years of a woman’s right to vote. The winner and woman seen on the sticker is Rosalie Jones.

According to Staten Island Museum archivist Gabriella Leone, “Rosalie Jones is a fascinating figure – they actually called her General Rosalie Jones, as she led the ‘Suffrage Army,’ a group pioneering votes for women activists who travelled with Jones to gain press attention and spread awareness for the cause.”

In December 1912 Jones led women on a 13 day suffrage pilgrimage from NYC to Albany and in February began a 200 mile, 20 day journey from New York City to Washington DC to meet with 5,000 fellow suffragists marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to fight for the right to vote. Lesser known is Rosalie Jones’ reputation as the ‘Pioneer Air Pilgrim.’ In May 1913, during the opening ceremony of The Flying Carnival of the Aeronautical Society at Oakwood Heights in Staten Island, NY, Jones was the first suffragist to take to the air for the cause. Jones flew over the carnival in a biplane and “bombed” the crowds with suffrage leaflets.

As reported in the New York Times in 1913, “Gen. Rosalie did not show a sign of fear as she took her seat in the biplane, seized a steel rod, the only thing to hold to, with her left hand, had her skirts tied down with a little piece of blue string, and, with a bunch of yellow Vote-for-Women leaflets in her right hand, nodded a smiling good-bye to the crowd below.”Full article here.

This new technique paved the way for other seminal leaflet “bombings.” Lucy Burns dropped leaflets in Seattle, which is said to have helped win the vote to establish what was said to be the world’s first women’s political party – the National Woman’s Party. Suffragists Mrs. John Blair and pilot Leda Richberg-Hornsby also planned to drop leaflets onto President Wilson’s yacht in December, 1916, however they crash-landed in the marsh off of Oakwood Beach. No one was seriously hurt.

“We’re thrilled that the public voted to give Rosalie Jones attention for her unique role in the suffrage movement,” stated Janice Monger, Staten Island Museum’s President and CEO. “Hers and other remarkable stories will form the core of an exhibition Staten Island Museum is developing to mark the centennial of women’s right to vote in the United States.” The exhibition will open in late 2019.

Shore-to-Shore Scavenger Hunt

We’re back with another 4-wheel team scavenger hunt! Clues will lead to sites of recent and bygone historical significance.

Teams will need: a car, a licenced driver, a smart phone (with social media), and creative knowledge of the Island. Please arrive by 12:00pm to check-in; the hunt begins at 12:30pm sharp. Award reception at the Museum at 4pm.

Open to all ages.

*Each participating car must be equipped with enough seatbelts for all players. All laws must be strictly obeyed.

Can you identify some of the "answers" below from this summer's scavenger hunt?

Many note this park as being the site of the oldest continually operating cricket club in the US. In fact, early movie scenes of the SI Cricket Club can be seen in the famous silent film “Raffles the Amateur Cracksman” (1917). However, it was also the site of the first national tennis tournament in America. Take a video of you or your team acting out a good volley or giving it all you got with a killer serve.

Halloween Harbor 2017

Saturday, October 28, All Day!

Mad science, haunted history, parties, and performances: experience it all at Halloween Harbor! Double the toil and double the trouble with activities all over the Snug Harbor campus from Art Lab, the Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, the Staten Island Children’s Museum, and the Staten Island Museum. Enjoy family friendly treats by day with your favorite young ghouls and wizards, along with festive tricks and haunts by night after the kids go to bed.

Event passes for all activities are $5 per person and free for children under 1 year. Your Saturday event pass also includes access to all museums and attractions within Snug Harbor during their normal operating hours. All Ghost Tours of Snug Harbor are ticketed separately. Membership benefits will be honored at respective institutions.

$5 per person, children under 1 year free

Clicking the purchase button will direct you to Brown Paper Tickets where you can buy your tickets in advance. Walk-ins are also welcome.

Halloween Harbor Schedule

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Pumpkin Painting – South Meadow (Rain location: Building P lobby)
Celebrate harvest on the South Meadow! Get yourself a pumpkin and decorate it with paints and your imagination.

4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Mysterious Harbor – Noble Maritime Collection (Bldg D, 1st Fl)
You’ll never see your neighborhood in the same way again after this lecture and slideshow at the Noble Maritime Collection on eerie and strange occurrences at Snug Harbor and on Staten Island, led by notable historian Pat Salmon.

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
PASS: In the Pines – Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art – Bldgs C&G
In the Pines, a dance-theater piece performed by Patrice Miller, questions the normalizing of violence in American culture through the pop aesthetics of the folk tradition of murder ballads. Part of the monthly Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS) series. Recommended for viewers aged 13+.

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Monster’s Ball – Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art – Bldgs C&G
The freakiest spirits come out to play once the kids have gone to bed. Dance and mingle the night away in your best Halloween regalia at this after-hours party. 21+.

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
10:00 PM – 11:30 PM
Ghost Tour – $20 (sold separately)
Is Snug Harbor haunted? You can be the judge of that. Join seasoned paranormal investigators for special 90 minute ghost tours of Snug Harbor buildings typically closed to the public. Learn the rich history and hear the stories of paranormal activity at the Governors House, Building K, Cottage A, and the Music Hall.

We are deeply grateful to NYS Assemblymember Matthew Titone for his generous support of this event.

Additional support is provided by the Richmond County Savings Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Stop & Shop.

Kid Flix - The Best Short Films from New York International Children’s Film Festival

Explore the world without leaving Staten Island! Each year, the New York International Children’s Film Festival scours the globe to find the best new flicks for kids. Join us as we screen the absolute best of the fest, presenting exciting new films in animation, live action, documentary, and experimental film chosen from over 2,500 international submissions. All ages will love these newly released award winning short films! Space is limited - advanced tickets strongly recommended. Click on blue button to purchase.

A diverse community must put aside their differences to enjoy a tasty meal in Stone Soup
(France/Belgium), a hungry creature devises a way to get his fill in Tiger (Germany), and a young croc enjoys a tasty treat in Crocodile (Germany). With visually innovative animation and many
Audience Award winners from New York International Children’s Film Festival 2017, Kid Flix 1 is truly delicious for ages 3-7.

A teenage monster confronts a bully in Welcome to My Life (USA), a Japanese-Australian boy finds adventure in his lunchbox in Riceballs (Australia), and a competitive swimmer must prove that big talent can come in small packages in Little Mouse (Hungary). Kid Flix 2 features live action and animated shorts for ages 8 and up from the 2017 New York International Children’s Film Festival that offer witty and wise takes on friends, family, and fitting in.